is critical. it really is. look, you know, to the survivors and families, jill and i, my wife jill is not here today with me. she is in delaware right now. she had to go back up. jill and i have gotten to know many of you over the years. some of us have become friends for a long time. we ve kept in touch. mark, it s good to see you again and your family, and the losses may be different, circumstances, but we ve shared before us something that s helped our family. when my wife and daughter were killed in a tractor-trailer struck them, just after i got elected, my two boys weren t expected to live, and then later when my son beau, who was the attorney general and volunteered to spend a year in iraq died, stage 4, glioblastoma. my daughter ashley taped a message to the mirror, the way everything gets to me through my wife and daughter now is they know i have to shave in the morning, so they ll tape on the mirror, for real. so i see it when i m shaving. one day she left me a quot
i will cap federal spending and finally balance the budget. i believe governor romney is a good man. but when he said 47% of the country consider themselves victims, think about who he was talking about. for conservatives across the country, they ve been frustrated for a long time. justice antonin scalia has died. i simply asked republicans to give merrick garland a fair hearing. i am running for president of the united states. there are questions swirling tonight around hillary clinton, and they concern a personal email account. you say you have the most transparent administration ever. it s true. it can be frustrating, this business of democracy. mahalo. as some of you heard, the state of hawaii released my official long form birth certificate. president obama, a first black president was constantly questioned, not really because of the policies, but literally because of who he was. it s not just that they disagreed with obama. the undertones of it w
realistic hope right now, as we sit here, that this time will be different? greg abbott would like us all to think that this is a mental health problem, every expert will tell you that these people that there are no indicators of mental health. that they re rational people, that they plan these things out. they re psychopaths, sure. but you re never going to really truly isolate them and identify them beforehand. and the experts around the country suggest that. there s mental health problems all over the world, but you don t have incidents like this happening all over the world. just here in these united states. i m in this business, because i have to find solutions to problems. and i hope and i have hope, that we can change things. so, let s see what greg abbott does. because i m calling on him right now to call a special session to bring us back in. we are seven states that meet every other year. we re a part-time legislature. we need to get back in there. because the
a lot of you are tired. you re tired. i get it. try being 110 and doing it again. all kidding aside, a lot of people are frustrated. my mother, god love her, all 5 1 , she looked at me and said joey, never bow. never bend, never yield. never kneel. we never will on this issue. never, never, never, never, never. folks, are we ever going to make progress we need to make, i m here to tell you we cannot give up. we will not get there, i still remember the people i met with in newtown and orlando and las vegas and pittsburgh and charleston, parkland, el paso, uvalde, buffalo, monterey park and so many other places that never make the headlines. i ve never forgotten them.